The barbeque
Cookin' everything from butts to guts -- and sometimes nuts.

Firstly, I gotta say that this is a really picture-heavy post. So if you're not interested, don't bother scrolling down, lol. It's just how we spent today as a family - preparing a barbeque dinner. =)

So that's us at the supermarket. The lion dance troop..my sister is terrified of them. She has this strange phobia. When they passed by, she was hiding behind all of us, her face red, making weird noises that sounded like little screams and she was tearing up. Kesian right?! But yeah. She's always had a phobia of lion dance troops. It was especially funny just now because when they passed, we were actually in the middle of a dispute over what items to get and when they did pass and she started her reaction, we all stopped and started laughing. Hahah.


Yeah. We've been busy. My eldest sister is the Master Chef in our house. She comes up with all these incredible, fabulous recipes and we just savour the outcome. And see! I tried to help! "Ok Ira, you sayang the chicken enough already." And she gave me this LOOK when I suggested removing the skin so we could have skinless chicken. Haha.



Do the pictures make you hungry? It made me! I was wondering how anyone can cook when I was already so tempted to start eating. First one is the fruit salad, second one the marinated chicken and the third, bee hoon in the making!

Ok sidetrack! That's Kiki's medicine. So kesian, right? But we managed to hide it within her food and she ate it all up. =D Good girl!



Anyway, the barbeque itself started at 8pm:



Presenting the Master Chef.. & Miran tried to grill his papadom!




"Get me a bucket of water, just in case!"
"No but look! There's a pond!"
[I swear, the kids had more fun messing about.]








Baby Ismail, Amir, Amirah. [Amir and Amirah are twins! Adorable, huh? =)]



Happy faces, happy stomachs. =)

Yepp, that's about it. Lovely day for a barbeque, though it was a VERY spontaneous decision. But I think everyone had fun and it gave us a great chance to just meet up and spend some time together before they went back to KL. If it had been one day earlier, Myrza and his family would have been able to join us but he's gone back to Perth so OH WELL.

Maybe next time we'll get Azmir AND Myrza. [Azmir, you hearread?!]

So much for losing weight with that jog this morning. Was it only this morning? Sheesh.

Auf Wiedersehen! =)

I actually managed to drag my lazy bum out of bed this morning for an invigorating jog. =D I'm trying to keep this up, kays? Haha it was funny because my mom walked while I jogged and halfway, I met her again [we were moving towards each other] and when she saw me, she just turned around and started walking back happily as though she had been ahead of me all along while there I was, trying my best not to call it quits. Hahah. I didn't jog that much though, I was reluctant to move off initially - we were just walking together at first, talking.






So then after that, we came home to a yummy breakkie. Kacang pool! But my mom's not allowing me to eat eggs! She says [k this might be gross!], she says that patients abstain from eggs after a surgery to prevent pus or something so I should abstain too until my complexion clears. Grrr. Then she decided, very kindly, that I could just take the egg whites not the yolk but I wanted the yolk because it looked so runny! I like to mix the yolk with whatever I'm eating. Haha!

Kiki seems alot better today. I suppose it's because of the dialysis. My mom predicts she'll feel worse tomorrow and on Tuesday, she'll be getting the drip again so she might perk up then. Please please please pray for my cat. I know she has to go someday. Just let it be as painless as possible for her.



Yesterday I was supposed to study but I was hardly able to concentrate. Was too worked up over Kiki. I had retail therapy [well, just ONE scarf from Accessorize] and comfort eating instead. Hurray to Mrs Field's and her goodies. Heh.

Yesterday night, my relatives came over. Soo kecoh! Haha. I kinda miss my cousins. I wish we could all go on another holiday to somewhere far away and really fun. Now everyone's spread out all over the world what with their studies and stuff and goodness knows when we'll ever meet up as one big gang again. One of my cousins just got engaged recently and my sisters and I couldn't make it. I know we're not close as cousins since she lives in Malaysia but STILL.

I wonder if we're going out later... gonna disturb Noreen. She's still in bed, can you believe that?!